President Reuven Rivlin hosts at his residence staff of the renowned UK medical journal The Lancet, after it published an issue dedicated to Israel’s healthcare system and medical innovations in Israel. The president received the special publication from Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton.
President Rivlin (right) and The Lancet editor-in-chief Dr. Richard Horton, May 11, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
“I want to thank you, and everyone here, for the important initiative of this special magazine: to show Israel’s healthcare system to the whole world, in your respected journal. I am especially pleased this is also on your website, in English, in Hebrew, and in Arabic,” Rivlin says.
The issue’s series of articles was conceived in 2014, after Horton allowed publication of an open letter that accused Israel of a “massacre” in Gaza. Horton later wrote that he regretted the polarization caused by the publication of the letter, but did not retract it.
At the time Horton said that the journal had proposed new guidelines to deal with “submissions that lie at the difficult intersection of medicine and politics,” and called on editors to “pause, reflect, and consult before publishing any manuscript that might unnecessarily polarize, or foster or worsen political division.”
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